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I had to strip the paint off a recently painted boxcar because I didn’t like the color. I used a bath of 99% isopropyl alcohol like I always do in such a case. Here is the result on the roof walk.
I have never seen that. This is a resin kit.
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I tried stripping paint off a resin 3d printed part using 99% alcohol and 2 hours in the alcohol and the plastic was like wet pasta.
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Weia!
Guy,
what you can do if the walkway is still soft:
- turn car upside down onto an plain pad, so it will lay on it's walkway
- add some weight into the car inner direct to the roof
- the weight(s) should be long and narrow and bearing directly, in this upside down status, over the walkway
- wait until the alcohol has evaporated out of the resine and hope (and pray) the walkway will become straight again
Worst case:
Make a new walkway.
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Guy,
While you may think this is a disaster, the walkway can be fixed, but I really like the looks of that car as it is now (with the exception of the walkway. I think some weathered black data and heralds for any road would make an interesting looking car. Actually it looks like a good candidate for a GERN box car as it already has 3% more weathering.
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Thank you guys for the reply.
Charlie : this could be a good suggestion but here is what I have in mind :
The prototype is actually at Exporail in St-Constant, QC.
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Great looking car Guy. A good project for sure. I actually owned a CP box car for a few years. It was newer and I believe 60 foot.
Charlie